Earthen Clay: As the apple disappears into water and sweetness in our bodies
By Tony Bluestone

https://brooklynrail.org/2025/09/artseen/earthen-clay-as-the-apple-disappears-into-water-and-sweetness-in-our-bodies/

Earthen Clay, Slow Strip, 2023 . Italian leather purse, marble dust, photographs, golf balls, lantern fly in paper box with resin, wooden spool, bay laurel leaf, goldenrod dyed cotton string, gold earring, chalk pastel, acrylic, silicone, 20 × 30 inches.. Photo credit: Pat Garcia.

Montserrat Gallery,
Montserrat College of Art,
23 Essex Street
Beverly, MA 01915
August 19 - September 27

Artist talk: Monday, September 22, 11-12PM, H101

Artist Reception: Wednesday, September 24, 5-7PM

Free and open to the public

As the apple disappears into water and sweetness in our bodies, Earthen Clay’s first solo exhibition in Massachusetts, includes paintings and sculptures made in the last two years. Clay’s site-responsive installation for the Montserrat Gallery is concerned with the space that is generated from the proximity of beings and objects and the experiences that unfold from these encounters. Folds, stacks, and stains hold embedded material and ask for a prolonged looking across unstable ground. Wooden scaffolding hold, fix and bind, or allow for spaces to exist within fragments of exuberant color and texture that hold personal meaning.